documentation for offline wallets, release notes

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-# Release 1.6.1 (10-01-2013)
+# Release 1.7
+
+* The wallet does not create new addresses until transactions have 2
+confirmations. This makes recovery from seed more robust. Note that it
+might create unwanted gaps if you use Electrum 1.7 together with older
+versions of Electrum.
+
+* An interactive Python console replaces the 'wall' tab. The provided
+python environment gives users access to the wallet and gui. Custom
+scripts an be loaded with a "run(filename)" command. Tab-completions
+are available.
+
+* The location of the Electrum folder in Windows changed from
+LOCALAPPDATA to APPDATA. Discussion on this topic can be found here:
+https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=144575.0
+
+* Private keys can be exported from within the classic GUI:
+  For a single address, use the address menu (right-click).
+  To export the keys of your entire wallet, use the settings dialog (import/export tab).
+
+* It is possible to create, sign and redeem multisig transaction, using the command line interface.
+This is made possible by the following new commands: 
+    dumpprivkey, listunspent, createmultisig, createrawtransaction, decoderawtransaction, signrawtransaction
+The syntax of these commands is similar to their bitcoind counterpart. 
+For an example, see Gavin's tutorial: https://gist.github.com/gavinandresen/3966071
+
+* Offline wallets do not need to be resynchronized in order to sign a transaction. 
+  For this, use 'signrawtransaction'. ('signtx' is deprecated').
+  See the help in docs/offline_wallets
+
+
+
+  
+
+# Release 1.6.2
+
+== Classic GUI
+* Added new version notification
+
+# Release 1.6.1 (11-01-2013)
+
 == Core
-* (Feature) Restore from MPK (actually added in 1.6.0)
-* (Chore) Rewrote seed dialog to be more clear
-* (Chore) Added button to the classic GUI to switch to lite GUI, also added the same button to the Lite GUI to keep it consistent.
+* It is now possible to restore a wallet from MPK (this will create a watching-only wallet)
+* A switch button allows to easily switch between Lite and Classic GUI.
 
 == Classic GUI
-* (Feature) Added request amount in other currencies to POS.
+* Seed and MPK help dialogs were rewritten
+* Point of Sale: requested amounts can be expressed in other currencies and are converted to bitcoin.
 
 == Lite GUI
-* (Chore) Removed receiving button in favor of menu item to keep it consistant with the history toggle.
+* The receiving button was removed in favor of a menu item to keep it consistent with the history toggle.
 
 # Release 1.6.0 (07-01-2013)